What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5.x

IBM® Lotus Notes® 8.5.x software helps you get work done quickly, providing you with a single point of access to help create, discover, and share knowledge, collaborate with teams, and take action. As traditional boundaries around work disappear, Lotus Notes 8.5.x software helps connect you to people and information throughout the enterprise and across the Internet.

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Lotus Notes 8.5.3 delivers significant enhancements to support social businesses and help users get their work done fast, for example:

• Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 includes entitlement to the IBM Connections files and profiles components adding significant capabilities to help clients become a social business
• Enhanced new mail notification which optionally provides a pop up preview (containing both sender and subject) of new mail messages as they arrive.
• Improved sorting on email subject content that ignores the "Re:" and "Fw:" prefix, from reply & forward respectively, providing a more accurate sorting of your data.
• A new option to search by sender or subject available when you right click an email.
• Optionally leave countered meetings on your calendar. Allow countered meetings to show up in a unique color, with the time the meeting was originally scheduled for as well as maintaining the ability to act on the original calendar invite and with hover text indicating the new proposed time.
• Optionally notify existing invitees when adding or removing attendees from an existing meeting, informing them of the change and updating the invitee list on their calendar invitation, as well as other options which negate the need for a user to process any meeting updates for anything other than a change in time, eg. a reschedule.
• Significant improvements to recent contacts, allowing end users more control over who gets added to recent contacts and improved data integrity.
• Geographic and time zone information is be displayed in the business card.
• Apple Mac usability improvements for e-mail gestures include the ability to drag one or grouped files to the Lotus Notes icon on your dock, and a new mail message will be created with those files attached.
• Embedded IBM Sametime is upgraded to V8.5.1 with an incremental installer to IBM Sametime 8.5.2, and embedded IBM Lotus Symphony is upgraded to V3.0.
• Additional platform support includes RHEL 6.0 Desktop, Citrix XenApp 6.0, and enhanced 64-bit toleration for Microsoft Windows.
• Added ability to remove signature file from a thread

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• Improve your mail experience through the use of managed mail replicas. Many Lotus Notes mail users have optimized their mail experience by accessing a local replica of their mail instead of on the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server. But some users don't know how to create or maintain a local replica. Now, Lotus Domino administrators can create and configure local replicas through policies using the new managed mail replica feature.
• Easily determine which archive you have open among multiple archives. When you are working in an archive, the title will say "Archive" and then the name of the archive.
• Save mail messages in a .eml file format
• View, as well as reserve, rooms and resources in your calendar. And private iCalendar feeds can now be added to your calendar.
• Make your contacts or groups private, and gain more control over which addresses are added to your recent contacts list.
• Compliance with 2009 Federal Desktop Core Configuration requirements

Download the Lotus Notes 8.5.2 trial edition

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• IBM makes it easier than ever to bring collaboration tools to your employees – when and where they need it. It's simple – you choose the capabilities they need, and select the IBM offering below that provides them. That's it. No longer do you need to pick and choose from individual software offerings – you choose the offering that meets your requirements, and IBM delivers.

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• Take control of your email through integration with Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 software, allowing users to manage personal allow and block lists right within the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 inbox.

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• Quickly create a meeting invitations by dragging an email from the inbox into the day-at-a-glance calendar. The meeting invitees are copied from the email To: and CC: lists, the meeting subject is copied from the email subject, the meeting description is set to the email body – reducing the need to copy and paste between documents.
• Save time when resizing with tables in email by simply dragging and dropping table corners.
• Take action quickly on a meeting invitation on the action bar within the preview pane, eliminating the need to fully open the invitation.
• Find information directly through Widgets and Live Text support on the Linux and Apple Mac OS platforms.

Learn more about Lotus Notes 8.5.1 features in the Lotus Design blog

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Socialize

• Share Lotus Notes documents with colleagues in the same way you share web pages through social bookmarks, and discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.¹
• Tap into the knowledge capital within your organization and expand personal networks through profile searching where you can find details on people, for example their organization, location, reporting structure and interests.¹
• Grow domain knowledge through new terms and concepts defined by examining search results that others have found useful.¹
• Find information directly through Widgets and Live Text support on the Linux and Apple Mac OS platforms.

Connect

• Maintain greater control over your schedule as the line between work and life outside of work continues to blur. Lotus Notes 8.5 software integrates various personal and professional calendars into a single view. Users can subscribe to iCal-based calendars and calendars in activities (meetings and to-dos associated with your current activities)¹, and view their complete schedules in one, easy to use interface.
• Share contacts across platforms that support the vcard file format, allowing users to exchange business contacts quickly.

Access

• Make your operating system choice, separate from your collaboration tool choice. Lotus Notes 8.5 adds support for the Apple Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and Ubuntu platforms.
• Provide broader support for roaming users, for example students and business center users, and reduce the need for dedicated laptops. Users can move from one Lotus Notes 8.5 client to the next and enjoy a consistent experience, bringing along email, applications, client settings and preferences.

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